Is a Chromebook Good for Coding and Data Science?
My Chromebook is perfectly good coding machine, but we should make it easier for Chromebook users to get started in programming.
Today’s Chromebook users are tomorrow’s professional coders
In early 2020, Google was reporting over 40 million users in education, using Chromebooks. This is already a significant segment using these systems.
But Chromebooks seem to be off the radar for coding and data science. It would be a great shame for us all if some young people with tech talent don’t get started on programming or data science because it’s a little too hard on a Chromebook. In many cases a Chromebook is the only machine they have, and the machine that they can afford.
Is it really the case that Chromebooks are not so good for coding and data science, as a Mac or PC?
Or is this an illusion that needs correcting?
I think it is more an illusion than reality …
A Chromebook is a great little coding machine
I’ve been using a Chromebook as a secondary development machine since last year. It works very well.
I confess that my favourite tool is still the Ubuntu Linux machine, but my Chromebook and…
